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Schwartzman: “My dream was this, enjoy every moment … and now I have one more game!”

The Argentine beat Jarry and is still alive at the IEB+ Argentina Open, his latest tournament

February 12, 2025

Diego Schwartzman has a smile that does not enter the face. All his happiness is not just for having won 7-6 (12-10), 4-6 and 6-3 to Chilean Nicolás Jarry, 40 ° of the PIF ATP Rankings and finalist twelve months ago of the IEB+ Argentina Open.

In fact, little matters to Schwartzman having won a main paido of an ATP Tour Tournament since October 2023, when he defeated Francisco closing him in Tokyo. It happens that after several months without touching the racket, his only expectations were to enjoy his last tournament to the maximum. Since he arrived at the club, in training, when he entered the court. And what if he did: he could win, and ended up hugging his family inside the court. I couldn’t ask for more.

How did this game live almost three hours? “I suffer a lot from the stomach. Yesterday all day at the club, the rain. I took 200 pills to play today, I am in rice and water three days ago for the nerves, ”said the Argentine, laughing.

“The last years were a bit like that in my career, I did not pass it too, and I wanted it to be special and in this way my last tournament, enjoying every moment and stretching it as much as possible, but doing it well,” he said. “I was already thinking of crying a little and not having to go bike to recover because I have to play again,” he joked.

“The next game is going to be the same, I try to give the greatest show, but nothing changes. Today the whole game was a mental struggle. At times I felt that I was not going to be able to emotion and on the inside I said, it was already, let it go, enjoy, cry a little and the night you are already a former player, ”he said.

What led him to give everything, once again? “It is that one always wants to win, and in the third I was already tired of the nerves did not help him … my dream was this. I would love to continue, but I can’t hold it, ”he said, at a press conference. Now, he will have a new opportunity to enjoy the Spanish Pedro Martínez.

Meanwhile, the old 8th of the world also put a tribute that is already oil in detail. “I don’t know if I’m going to receive a tribute. I am not very anxious, I do not want more anxieties, the only thing I know is that I have no words of thanks because I invited myself only practically, but hey, now at least the WC won a game and is still alive, ”he said with a laugh

For Schwartzman, this week’s greatest prize is the love he has received, inside doors, for his colleagues, in addition to the people who came to see him. “The first days always come a little less from people and love with me is something that I don’t finish believing, my peers, no matter if I get better or worse. They were all looking there, that’s what feels most beautiful and is the best. People who don’t know me and people who. “